Dmitry Churbanov

In the previous post we discussed how to import remote Git repository. Now let’s look which Git commands are available in EGit plugin. EGit plugin is still not completely ready and does not support all Git commands. You can watch “Understanding and Using Git at Eclipse” webinar to learn what is ready and what the plans are.

Eclipse Helios (ver. 3.6) is out and the second top requested feature was Git support. And here it is: EGit plug-in. It is still in the “Incubation Phase“, but you already can try it.

In this tutorial I will show the basic steps of creating Java project in eclipse using EGit plug-in. Eclipse “Helios” and EGit version 0.8.4 are used in this tutorial.

Git is a Distributed Version Control System (DVCS) (as Mercurial about which I wrote earlier). As well as Mercurial, Git mirrors your repository. In other words every time when you check out code you make a full backup of a repository.

Mercurial is a distributed revision control (DRC) management system. Decentralization is one of its advantages. For an individual developer DRC systems are faster than centralized: all metadata is stored locally and you do not need to contact the central server each time you modified the code. Mercurial repository is self-contained. It means that all changes you have made will exist only in your local repository until you decide to propagate these changes to the remote one.